Not much happened this week... We had a conference this week
with Presidente Parreño and it was a really good conference. he talked about
Fountains of Power
-Unity -Focus -Determination -
Faith
These are the four
fountains of power that we have and if we are using all of them and give all
our power to use them it will power our Goals that we have. That if we dont
have one it hurts us in our missionary work. I really liked the conference and
i had learned a lot.
Now to the topic of this
email
, Power in Testifying!
, Power in Testifying!
We were talking to a lady Gladus of is
Evangelical and she believes that she has the Priesthood Authority to baptize,
to cast out devils, to do miracles, etc.. She said that her church was true and
that we are crap, that our church isn't anything that it fake, and that what we
do as missionaries is good but we are cheating and lying to the people.
Then as we were
talking after she said that, another women from the house just next door, its
like an apartment building so the door was less then 10 feet away. She came out
and starting bashing on us and telling us that we are wrong and from Man the we aren't of God that we follow a man Joseph (Smith) and that we are completely of
the Devil, etc etc etc... She was saying things like that....
I then stopped them both from talking, the
only way to stop someone is to talk louder then them. I began to declare and
testify of the Authority that we have, that we are Missionaries of The Church
of Jesus Christ, That we are Representative of Jesus Christ himself, that was
we say is the truth as if it came from the mouth of Jesus Christ himself. That
we have been called and sent to declare The Gospel of Jesus Christ to the
world, that we hold the Holy Priesthood of God! We have been ordained of
God and we hold his power. We are her to invite people unto Christ, and that is
what we are doing.
I then invited
Gladus to pray about our message and left her with that invitation as it says
in D&C 121:43 after you chastise show and increase in Love and that's what
we did.
Waking away, about a
minute later my companion told me that he felt the spirit so strong, that
NORMALLY my spiritual voice is a softer voice and he felt the spirit with that,
normally. He then said that he was wrong and that I have two types of Spiritual
Voices, and that soft voice was not the one he just heard. He said as it says
in the Book of Mormon in (Mosiah 27:11&15 and Alma 29:1-2) is what he heard
leave my mouth in that moment. He said it was as Angel´s had been testifying to
these two women and is was as the sound of a trumpet, it was a loud firm voice
that Declared who we are and testified of our message.
then i went to tell him after i had stopped
talking and as we were leaving my knees were shaking and my whole body was
physically exhausted and i was about to fall....
That is what had happened
during this week..... I know the church is True!!! love you all!!!
Con Amor Elder Ethan C. Durocher!!!
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